Sep 19, 2007, GOD HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR

Hello everyone, I'm just now waiting for the car to arrive to take me to the offices of Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS where I will be interviewed for NEW YORK ONE NEWS. I'm to be New Yorker of the Week which will air this weekend in conjunction with the annual BCEFA auction in Shubert Alley Sunday. This will be, I think, my 20th time doing the auction. When it was known that I would have to have such radical surgery because of breast cancer, BCEFA came forward with funds to help me out - so things are coming full circle....I have helped raise a lot of money for them and now I'm the recipient of their largess. You can view the interview on www.NY1.com - and then click onto New Yorker of the week - it will be there for two months. I have started chemo - today is my seventh day of my first session and so far I feel alright. Actually, I cannot afford to be ill because, on top of everything else, I have been cast in the movie version of SEX AND THE CITY where I'm to play myself as an auctioneer!!! I was supposed to get my hair cut off sooner but because the filming people wanted my look as it is, they are shooting this coming Sunday at Christie's auction house. The hair does not usually come out until after the second chemo which will be on the 27th of this month, so my dear friend John Barret is to cut it next Tuesday. I always thought I would be immortalized for my spiritual accumen but no, it's going to be for my tiny, tiny role in SEX AND THE CITY! Don't tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor! I'm having a very, very difficult time with the thought of loosing my hair. It's strange because the loss of the breasts is permanant and the hair is temporary, it will grow back, but still it's upsetting me a lot. I'm getting it cut off so that I won't have to see it falling out on my pillow and all those who have gone through this process say that it's the best way. It will be cut short and then when it does start falling out, John will buzz it off. I understand my eyebrows will fall out too. I'm feeling sorry for myself. But, like everything else, one moment-at-a-time, with everyone pulling for me, I'll get through it.